You can ask for and be granted software patents in europe. There is however no legal grounds for suing someone based on a breach of them. This is a really silly situation and it is this oversight in the law which is used as main argument by a few politicians in the pocket of big industry to introduce the appropriate framework so folks can actually be sued for breach of a software patent. They've tried sneaking it in via a farm bill no less (I know this sounds rathe run- of-the-mill for US politics, but it isn't in europe). Every so often we all have to travel to brussels and hold a gigantic rally to stop them. It's tedious, but so far its working, and of late they've stopped trying.
IANAL, etc, etc, etc. On Sep 7, 12:37 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Where did this claim that Europe doesn't have software patents come > from? Earlier this year a German patent attorney instructed our > office on the ins and outs of American vs European patent law. Google > it, there are European software patents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
